Saturday, June 13, 2009

Major Lazer

For those who missed it, uber Club DJs/Producers, Diplo and Switch invaded Quad Night club last night (June 12, 2009) to drop the much anticipated, the totally off the wall, dancehall-oriented Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do album. You missed it? Then you missed a hell of a party. Prince Zimbo killed it and to be honest, I can’t believe that the Quad is still standing after these party carnivores were done with it. MHAAADDD^_^ Check out these crazy pics by our own man on the scene Biggy Bigz.

2 comments:

Actually if you were out on the floor you would have noticed that the vibe was very floppish- Zimboo's brief bit on the mic was the best moment of Diplo's set by far- the rest of the time he proved that he didn't do his research at all on how to play for the Jamaican crowd, nor on how to launch a record. The whole night his selection was all over the place- from the Outhere Brothers "Boom Boom Boom" to a last year dancehall track, to a bunch of tunes that had just been played before him (the Gearbox riddim, that Brazillian joint that Busy rides, etc.) I didn't need to hear some farin yute playing random dancehall (poorly) with a few very random club and hip hop chunes.

He's a great producer but Jamaican crowds will test the mettle of a DJ, and he failed miserably. A well organised and action packed one hour set with some more live participation would have left much more of an impact- instead most of the people I know who actually came specifically for D&S left saying WTF???